There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

— Sydney J. Harris

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

— Sydney J. Harris

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.

— Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

— Sydney J. Harris

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

— Sydney J. Harris

The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that it forces us to think and talk and feel in terms of abstractions—those "communists" this time, those "fascists" last time. But those we are fighting and killing are people—men, women and children—not political, geographic or economic abstractions. They are, in the main, as decent and fearful and confused as we are. And they regard us as abstractions as much as we do them.

— Sydney J. Harris

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

— Sydney J. Harris

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

— Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

— Sydney J. Harris

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost" and say "I lost it."

— Sydney J. Harris